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Edge is one of the latest Apple approved web browsers for the iPod touch and iPhone. The company has started including third party web browsers in the App Store. All of them have something special in them. You can choose any of them considering your requirements and preferences.

Edge’s speciality lies in its full screen web browsing capabilities. It has been optimised to give the user a full view of the web page. Like other web browsers there will not be any interfering elements to obstruct your view. But to offer this the Edge has to sacrifice loads of functions that are generally used while surfing the web. Unfortunately, you will not be getting any address bar, forward or backward buttons, history, bookmarks support, refresh option, home button and many other tools. So clearly Edge still has a way to go before it rivals the browser used with Windows Mobile or Symbian phones, like the Nokia E71, yet alone challenge the Safari on iPhone browser. Every time you want to open up a new web site you have to specify its URL by navigating to iPhone’s settings page and then load the Edge. This naturally this irritates almost all the users and makes it impractical to use the Edge browser. But still if you have great tolerance level then this iPhone browser is best for you because no other can offer unobstructed browsing.

Another main feature of Edge is that it’s the only third party browser for iPhone that does not charge you anything. This browser is perfect for those who usually visit selected web pages and don’t switch form one hyperlink to other too much.

Apple is entertaining the third party Internet browsers nowadays and some of them have already been provided a space in the App Store. As of now there are only three third party browsers that can be downloaded from App Store for the iPhone, and compete with Apple’s Safari browser.

The first one is Edge Browser. The speciality of EDGE is that it allows full screen web browsing. However, to offer this the browser sacrifices on screen controls and navigation menus. So unless you are using analytics or working on a site about which you know each and everything the EDGE is useless. But EDGE is the only third party browser that is available for free. The second web browser that is Incognito that is very useful if you fear of leaking your website activities to another user. This browser leaves no traces of any session established between the phone and the web server. In other words you can browse the Internet without any worries as nobody can find out that which web sites you visited. The only downside of this browser is that it comes with a price tag of $1.99.

Another third party browser exclusively developed for Apple iPhone is the WebMate browser. You can get it by paying just 99 cents. If you are addicted to tabbed browsing then this one is for you. But this one also has its own limitations, and Safari naturally remains the best browser for your Apple iPhone. It cannot save information of active tabs. That means if you switch from one tab to other the latter one will get reloaded from scratch. So the overall browsing experience will be slow.